6 October 2024
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A few years ago, I made a router sled (mentioned here), which is a jig designed to turn a router into a way of levelling off bits of wood. It doesn’t do a flawless job, certainly with the router bits … Continue reading
18 September 2024
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As a bassist, turning up to gigs typically involves more than just arriving with my instrument. I’ve typically got an amp, an FX unit and various sundries to cart around, including somewhere to mount the iPad holder for the iPad … Continue reading
12 July 2024
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This afternoon, I’ve been making lids. Specifically, I’ve been making lids for a couple of old recycling boxes to store kindling and small firewood. The boxes lost their original lids sometime ago but are other wise fairly sound so, with … Continue reading
12 February 2024
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I did a little DIY job for a friend today. They have an arbour in their garden and the back had come off in recent winds. I think the problem was that it had two shortish screws holding it on … Continue reading
29 January 2024
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Jane seems to think I’ve got a lot of power tools but I certainly don’t have all of them (or room for all of them!). One that is missing from my collection is a mitre saw (also known as a … Continue reading
15 September 2023
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I’m working on creating an outside storage bench from old pallet wood: somewhere to sit but with space under the seat to store things like bags of compost and other things that have been cluttering up the growing space in … Continue reading
28 August 2023
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I had a different woodwork project in mind for today but Jane wanted me to get on and do something about our dining room table. We bought it probably about 12-13 years ago from a place near Oxford. It is … Continue reading
7 January 2023
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In my original plan, the touch screen monitor for the new mixer would be stored in the box where the current mixer lives and just be stood up when the box was opened. The minor flaw with that plan is … Continue reading
29 October 2022
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I had some wood to process today – a selection of branches (mainly willow and little bit of cherry). The trouble was that I didn’t have a spare box to store it in. Or, more accurately, I had a box … Continue reading
16 September 2021
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This afternoon, I’ve been putting my router to work. Before we went on holiday, I knocked up a couple of wooden lids to sit on top of a couple of large plastic storage boxes we took. The design was very … Continue reading